Friday, April 26, 2024

An American century of carnage

Measuring violence in a single superpower world.

Stumbling into war?

Could the U.S. and China face an unintended blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden years?
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Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on IDF killing AJ journalist, the 3 hostages & US...

Bishara addresses how the United States is increasingly isolated in its opposition to a ceasefire, growing focus on Israel’s collective punishment, and more.

On Syria And Skittles, Demagogues And The Damned

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Killing Palestinian journalists and the silence of Israeli Apartheid

Apartheid is not just systemized suppression and wholesale control, it’s a mental attitude of extreme prejudice that leads to and enables inhumane acts of violence, exploitation and humiliation. 

End the war in Ukraine

No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin.

The military cost of protecting oil with a case study of Iraq invasion

The primary motive of the war is to control Iraqi’s oil production to sustain the global oil flows and to keep a check on prices.

But I thought the Cold War was supposed to have been about ideology.

The Cold War should have ended in 1991 when communism and the Warsaw Pact did, but instead it continued on in the form of NATO.

NYC transit hubs grind to a halt as protests for Gaza cease-fire sweep the...

NYC's transit hubs became stages for impassioned pleas for peace in Gaza, as protesters demand action amidst a rising death toll and global reactions.

Why I weep while I work

Or what it means to experience America's wars from a computer screen away